Alex Rosner is an American sound engineer and designer. He is known as the sound designer for the club
The Loft and as the inventor of the
DJ mixer.
Early life
Rosner and his father survived the Holocaust and time at
Dachau.
After the war the family moved to
Queens
Queens is the largest by area of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the ...
, New York.
He received a degree in engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (; RPI) is a private university, private research university in Troy, New York, United States. It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere. It was establishe ...
.
Career
Rosner got started building Hi-Fi systems while a student in electrical engineering.
He built stereophonic discotheques at the
1964-65 World's Fair.
This was the world's first stereophonic system.
Rosner opened his business, Rosner Custom Audio, in 1967.
He had a long collaboration with
David Mancuso.
Rosner prototyped the first mixer in 1965, as a way to transition between vinyl records.
He designed systems for Directoire, the Ginza, the Limelight, Max's Kansas City, Shepheard's, Tambuorine, and Tamburlaine.
Rosner's systems survive at Riverside Cathedral and St. John the Divine churches in New York.
References
External links
Martin Beck in conversation with Alex Rosner, 47 Canal, September 2022
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American audio engineers
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